Le 2010-03-20 à 14:10, Daniel Beatty a écrit : > Greetings Pankaj, > I wish I could say that all of us are unbiased, but we foxes love guarding > the hen house. > > Rails and WO have much in common since many of the design patterns are the > same. Thus the learning curve might not be so bad. It is a matter of > Ruby-Java hurdles, which are not all that difficult.. > > Up until a week or two ago, I could have suggested getting a Select > membership and a copy of VMWare Fusion to run OSX Server (10.5 or 10.6). > That is generally the setup I use for developing WO. In my case, the > Eclipse IDE is running on my Snow Leopard Macbook Pro and VMWare Fusion is > running a copy of OSX Server with the MySQL that comes with it. For the most > part, it is a good lazy man's development environment. I am still making > heads or tails out of current events at Apple.
I don't know if Apple still provide a release of OS X Server in the new Mac Developer program, but now that some WO content from previous WWDCs is available on ADC, I would strongly suggest to become a member to access the old recordings, even if some of them are talking about Xcode/WO Builder. > That being said, the run time environment for WO deployment can be just about > any platform. I love my Mac, and I have no trouble running WO under CentOS > or SuSE Linux (as long as someone else is maintaining that Linux machine). > Project Wonder provides installers of the WO run time environment for Linux > for some time now. The issue for WO on Apple hardware is for the > development libraries. In other words, develop on a Mac and deploy anywhere. > > My jury is still out on the scalability question. In my case, I am still > finalizing the model that I am using for my dissertation prototype. Due to > its complexity, that work will just have to be sure, steady, and even a piece > at a time. > > Later, > Dan > > > On Mar 20, 2010, at 8:17 AM, Pankaj D wrote: > >> Hi , everyone >> >> This is my first post to any apple mailing list after transition to mac >> platform ... and i am impressed with the overall development tools available >> ... in Mac OS X... earlier to that the next most impressive stack for >> development was "LINUX" .... >> >> I am a web developer with 2+ yrs exp ,... in PHP and Rails .... >> After transitioning to Mac .. i wanted to use WebObjects ... i have a >> project with a client around $ 30K worth and 6 months at hand ... so i can >> develop in my leasure time .... my question should i experiment .. with >> learning "WO" and simultaneously develop the project ... or stick to what i >> know (PHP/Rails) ... considering that i read at lot of places that "WO" is >> very easy ... and more powerfull than "Rails" .... >> >> Also my client wants a webserver deployment at office ... so do i have to >> suggest him to buy a MAC OS X Server or "WO" can be deployed on normal x86 >> Server hardware .... >> >> What Are the scalability options in "WO" ... as this project has an annual >> maintenance of $ 18K ... and any development extra .... >> >> Regards >> Pankaj >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. >> Webobjects-dev mailing list (Webobjects-dev@lists.apple.com) >> Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: >> http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/webobjects-dev/danielbeatty%40mac.com >> >> This email sent to danielbea...@mac.com > > Dan Beatty, M.S. CS (B.S. EECS) > Ph.D. Student > Texas Tech University > dan.bea...@mac.com > http://venus.cs.ttu.edu/~dabeatty > http://web.me.com/danielbeatty/My_Home_Page/Welcome.html > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. > Webobjects-dev mailing list (Webobjects-dev@lists.apple.com) > Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: > http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/webobjects-dev/probert%40macti.ca > > This email sent to prob...@macti.ca _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Webobjects-dev mailing list (Webobjects-dev@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/webobjects-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
